SAPPORO, Japan-- A powerful earthquake Thursday on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido triggered dozens of landslides that crushed houses under torrents of dirt, rocks and timber, prompting ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese stocks will be largely flat in 2018 and then rise over 3 percent next year, in part supported by cheap valuations, but gains will be limited by a global economy hit by trade ...

BTS and TWICE both had an amazing year on the Billboard charts in Japan! On December 7, Billboard Japan published its annual year-end charts for 2018, and both group made multiple appearances in the ...

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As the only advanced industrial democracy that has closed its borders to unskilled migrant labor since the end of World War II, Japan has long been viewed as hostile to immigration. Although the ...

If you’re a diabetes patient in Japan, the gods may be watching over you. The country is struggling with rising numbers of diabetics, but a novel approach to managing Type 2 diabetes mixes a bit of ...

July 23, 2018, was a day unlike any seen before in Japan. It was the peak of a weekslong heat wave that smashed previous temperature records across the historically temperate nation. The heat started ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Tokyo may be an impressive city, but it's not all Japan has to offer. The country's islands, shrines, world-renowned cuisine, and beautiful ...

Rescue workers are using heavy equipment to dig through the debris from a landslide that buried houses and people in the small town of Atsuma on Japan’s northern island prefecture of Hokkaido. The ...

Okinawa, Japan, where hundreds of residents are over 100 years old, is often known as "the land of immortals." Last year, the number of people 90 years old and above in Japan hit the 2 million mark.